Up till now...

I've now worked at the school for a year! The time has gone so quickly I cannot believe it and yet at the same time my colleagues have made me feel so welcome I feel like I've been here forever. 

Before coming here I was pretty much fresh out of a Master's degree in Sound Production, and before that I was (very!) fresh off a BSc Music Tech course. So you could say I was in education right up to the point I got a job... In education. 

I've completed a full round of productions now, from the big school musical to the annual outdoor Shakespeare and the small exam productions. I started last year with the Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) (June 15), 

then The Canterbury Tales (Nov 15), 

the Christmas Panto (Dec 15), 

Bronte (Dec 15), 

Little Shop of Horrors (March 16) 

and Great Expectations (May 16). 

Plus we've had all the GCSE, AS and A2 and LAMDA exams, Edinburgh shows, touring shows and the music, jazz, science and literature festivals on top!

We're now looking ahead and the next stages are the GCSE exams in a few weeks, then outdoor Shakespeare (Taming of the Shrew), the science and music festivals and then it's the summer holidays! Looking past that, our next confirmed productions are Arabian Nights and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.  

This blog is to keep a record for myself of the work we do here and hopefully inspire some new technicians in the making as well as showing a day to day / week to week view of what goes on inside a school theatre. It definitely doesn't start and stop on show week!

If you have any comments, thoughts, questions or even advice you want to share, please do!

Happy reading! xx